1932Nominee
Best Performance
Westward Passage
Nance O'Neil
Actor
Oakland, California, USA
October 6, 1874
Biography
Nance O'Neil, born Gertrude Lamson, was an American stage and screen actress. When she decided to become an actress, her religious father, George Lamson, an auctioneer, denounced his daughter in church for going on the stage and asked the congregation to pray for her. O'Neil's first performance in a professional production was in the role of a nun in Sarah at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco on October 16, 1893. At the height of her career, she was promoted on theatre bills and in period trade publications and newspapers as the "American Sarah Bernhardt".
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1916Nominee
Best Performance
The Toilers
1915Nominee
Best Performance
Princess Romanoff
Career Highlights
1931Highlight
Best Performance
Cimarron
1917Highlight
Best Performance
Hedda Gabler
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Cimarron
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